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Authors Wahab  
Coauthors: Ochoa Bogh  
Subject Sexual assault forensic evidence: testing.
Relating To relating to evidence.
Title An act to amend Section 680 of the Penal Code, relating to evidence.
Last Action Dt 2025-10-13
State Chaptered
Status Chaptered
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2025-10-13     Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 783, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-13     Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-23     Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2025-09-13     In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-09-13     Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3459.) Ordered to the Senate.
2025-09-13     Joint Rule 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
2025-09-13     Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 3062.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2025-09-11     Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-09-10     From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (September 10).
2025-09-09     From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-09-08     Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
2025-09-08     Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
2025-09-08     From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-09-05     Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended.
2025-09-05     Read third time and amended.
2025-09-05     Ordered to third reading.
2025-09-04     Action rescinded whereby bill was read third time, passed, and ordered to the Senate.
2025-09-04     Ordered to third reading.
2025-09-03     Ordered to the Assembly.
2025-09-03     In Assembly. Held at Desk.
2025-09-03     Ordered to unfinished business.
2025-09-03     Withdrawn from committee.
2025-08-25     Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d).
2025-08-25     From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 2242.) Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
2025-08-21     Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2706.) Ordered to the Senate.
2025-08-21     In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-07-17     Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
2025-07-16     From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 15).
2025-06-19     Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
2025-06-17     From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
2025-05-12     Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
2025-04-24     In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
2025-04-24     Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 888.) Ordered to the Assembly.
2025-04-22     Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
2025-04-21     From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.
2025-04-04     Set for hearing April 21.
2025-04-02     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 609.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-03-13     Set for hearing April 1.
2025-03-12     Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
2025-02-24     Read first time.
2025-02-24     From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
2025-02-21     Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Versions
Chaptered     2025-10-13
Enrolled     2025-09-18
Amended Assembly     2025-09-09
Amended Assembly     2025-09-08
Amended Assembly     2025-09-05
Amended Assembly     2025-06-17
Introduced     2025-02-21
Analyses TBD
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Existing law, the Sexual Assault Victims’ DNA Bill of Rights, requires law enforcement agencies, for sexual assault forensic evidence received on or after January 1, 2016, to either submit the evidence to a crime lab within 20 days after it is booked into evidence or ensure that a rapid turnaround deoxyribonucleic acid program is in place, as specified. However, existing law authorizes a sexual assault victim to request that a kit collected from them not be tested and prohibits a kit for which this request had been made from being tested.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.